Blue Jays-Rangers ALDS Game 4 tip sheet

The Rangers still lead the Blue Jays in the best-of-five American League Division Series 2-1 and they can advance with a win when they were due to host the Blue Jays in Game 4 yesterday.

“We have to talk to him”, manager John Gibbons said. “But I’ve got to tell you, especially you guys who follow us all the time, he’s been doing that all year. I could do it all day”, Tulowitzki said.

Since David Price warmed up tonight you have to assume that former Ranger draftee R.A. Dickey will probably make his scheduled start while the Rangers will send Derek Holland to face the Blue Jays in his first postseason start since the infamous Game 4 of the 2011 World Series.

“He was hot”, said Johnson, bullpen talk for meaning Price was ready as Aaron Sanchez struck out Shin-Soo Choo for the final out of the eighth.

Roberto Osuna pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to close out the Toronto win.

Tulo’s breakthrough moment silenced a Globe Life Park crowd of 50,941, and the Blue Jays never looked back. The franchise post-season record is five by Tony Fernandez in 1993. The previous mark was two, which had happened five times.

In the fifth inning, the Blue Jays began to mount their comeback, with catcher Russell Martin scoring after Kevin Pillar doubled.

“We’re facing their ace”, Gibbons said. “We went into Toronto, played two really good ballgames, a 14-inning ballgame that was tough to both teams”.

After consecutive innings without a run, the Rangers finished off the game with two runs in the 14th inning to get the 2-0 series lead.

Troy Tulowitzki settled down at the podium after helping the Toronto Blue Jays extend the AL Division Series, his left shoulder and arm constantly pulsating from the medical device attached to him.

Of course, the manager, and everyone else in a Toronto uniform, talked about the Jays’ calmness under pressure, and their undeniable talent, and their resourcefulness back in the regular season when they would patiently persist after a letdown of a game or two. But he answered the fans in the bottom of the inning with a fine running foul catch at the seats.

A Cardinals official said the latch froze during the latter innings of the Cardinals’ 4-0 victory Friday night. In his last four starts, he’s 1-1 with a 2.25 ERA and has averaged right at six innings per start. It marked the Jays’ third all-time three-run homer in the playoffs, joining Candy Maldonado in the 1992 AL Championship Series and Joe Carter’s winning blast in the 1993 World Series.

Josh Donaldson scored the second run for the Blue Jays after starting the fourth inning with a lead-off double and advancing to third on a Jose Bautista fly out. A double play limited the damage, but Dioner Navarro still came home to put Toronto ahead.

Righty Chi Chi Gonzalez replaced Perez and walked Encarnacion to load the bases, but got Colabello to ground into Toronto’s fourth double play of the game. It worked, although they wasted a slew of chances leading up to Tulowitzki’s homer. He then broke the game open with a three-run blast in the sixth. 183 since the all-star break to lead the majors.